Following up on the “monstermash” silliness: MONSTER THROWDOWN A discussion of vampires, werewolves and Louisa May Alcott moderated by Pulitzer Prize winner John Matteson on May 6that Symphony Space Lynn Messina, coauthor of Little Vampire Women (HarperTeen), and Porter Grand, coauthor of Little Women and Werewolves (Random House), sit down with John Matteson, author of Eden’s Outcasts: [...]
I enjoy investigating little splinter subgenres of fiction. Movie novelizations were probably the first niche I dove into, having read copies of WarGames and Goonies into tatters in junior high. Then the punk years: cyberpunk, splatterpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, biopunk, slipstream/new weird, urban fantasy: I dove into most and came up stinking. I spent a little [...]
The freshman class of “Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story” ebooks has been released into the wild. Being a fan of a) the Kindle, b) The Atlantic (though moreso in former days than lately) and c) short fiction, these would appear to be cultural products aimed directly at my demographic. And so, being as good [...]
Books Here, I’m not so proud. I didn’t hit my usual goal of 50 or more books in a year, and looking back over what I did read, I read a lot of crap. Resolution #1 for 2010 is to read better books. Also, read more short stories. Favorite books of the year are probably [...]
Unless I am too impatient to wait for a collection, I generally avoid single issues of comics. I prefer a whole story in one package, not paced out across months (which also constrains story structure, usually to a 5-act drama form). Currently, Stumptown is the only series I am picking up in individual issues. This is [...]
Experiment from Rick Moody & Black Clock: http://bit.ly/4qWKVL You can read the whole thing if you scroll down a few dozen messages on @blackclockmag. There’s an issue with “tweet fiction”: If you read real-time, the order works. Otherwise, Twitter frustrates the reader by going backwards. So, what about the “Contemporary Characters” in “Some Contemporary Characters?” [...]
For a couple of years I managed to avoid television by cramming my set into an unused corner of the living room after the satellite box that comes with the condo crapped out. Then the geniuses in Hollywood put together the Frankenstein monster that is Hulu and got me to watch far too much television [...]
